♪
And in all of mine years of public life,
I have never obstructed justice
And I also think, that I can say,
That was in my years public life,
I welcome This kind of inspection
Because people I have to know
Are they The president is a criminal.
Well, I'm not a criminal.
♪
To share with you what United States knows
About weapons iraq mass destruction,
Every statement I made today
Reserved by sources, solid sources
This is not a statement.
What we give you is a fact
And based conclusions on solid intelligence
♪
Renewed hostile actions against US ships
On the high seas at tonkin bay
Does this day sue me?
Order military forces from the United States
To take action in return.
So what do I want to see
If you can give me or there is no answer to the question:
Do you collect all types of data at all? To millions or hundreds of _ from millions of Americans?
No sir.
Is that not?
Not appropriate.
You have to get rid of it this is stupid
And the majority is mixed up.
Control them, make sure they do the right thing
All for them well alone, coincidentally.
If they are permitted to participate,
They will make all kinds of errors, errors,
But we, the man in charge,
We know how to do it the right thing
Like entering into Vietnam war
And attacking iraq and bank deregulation
So that everything gets stuck.
We - we get all straight
♪
My fellow citizens, this time,
America and the United States coalition forces
Is in the early stages military operations
To disarm iraq,
To free the people,
And to defend the world from great danger.
♪
I believe, very deep,
In freedom from the press
And the role of the press in a free society,
And I've been since I was a kid
You cannot meet your needs functions unless you are free.
One of the great reporters from 20th century, I.F. Batu,
It is said journalistic students never forget
That all governments lie.
He can talk with authority,
After spending seven decades exposing fraud
And official lies
By digging deep into government documents
and transcripts.
I try to prove it what I say
From the horse mouth, as it is.
Using government own documents,
Government reports and transcripts
And press conference, speech,
And analyze them the way - the way a historian will.
He gets his fame and the biggest impact
Publish a newsletter called "Weekly Stone."
All people in the government and journalism know fatty stones And read the items.
IF. Weekly Stone is about this size
OK, I.F. Weekly Stone is a classic example
Who is independent journalistic organization
That can be to report the truth
And so alternative media,
What I really think, is real journalism
Always work as a vehicle
It has been exposed to collusion,
Hypocrisy and lies commercial media
Do you think Criticize the great oz,
Are you ungrateful?
I mean, rock is good like toto, you know
It feels like a job to pull back the curtain
The big one has spoken.
Oh!
Don't pay attention to that the man behind the curtain!
And to see what is behind the curtain
And what's behind the curtain, yes,
That is a very strong oz.
It is also fair a little man who is scared
It's nothing from us needs to be feared,
And why - why? are we afraid of that?
That is the manifestation of what he and his weekly stand for
And of course a great inspiration for me
♪
I want supervision from certain mosques, okay?
I saw in city jersey, new jersey,
Where thousands and thousands of people cheer
Like that building down.
Donald j. Trump is a total call
And the complete shedding of Muslims enters the United States
Until our country representatives can find out
What is happening.
♪
You have no choice.
Who would have thought that this circus would come to town,
But you know, maybe is not good for America,
But it's very good for CBS,
That's all I can say.
Money flows in and it's fun
I have never seen Things like this,
And you know, this will happen be a very good year for us.
This is terrible to say,
But just take it, donald, please.
Continue.
That makes you ask, seriously,
Is it an executive who runs a media conglomerate
Have more ethics or morals
Instead of running away oil and gas industry,
Pharmaceutical companies, tobacco industry.
It's open my question
♪
♪ swing my limousine
♪ now everything is designed
♪ to blow our minds
♪ but our thoughts won't really explode ♪
♪ like a punch it will be yes ♪
♪ when you get your photo
♪ on the cover of rolling stones ♪
Rolling Stones ♪ ♪ want to see us picture on the cover ♪
♪ want to buy five copies for our mother ♪
♪ want to see me smiling face ♪
♪ on the cover from a rolling stone ♪
We are in New Hampshire,
Which is like, its capital from America is depressed, where,
You know, manufacturing economy has been lost,
And we really didn't check it the problem at all
We don't actually talk to people at all,
Because you don't have time
There is only time to watch the speech,
Asking people in the audience What do they think speech
And then you continue
And you go ahead to the next place
Everything can be shot
In the sound stage in la with -
Just by turning in a different audience every time
♪
Well, Donald Trump, of course,
Stay strong Pioneer here
Win the main republic of in New Hampshire tomorrow.
It's snow in. New Hampshire,
People know how to put it - to get a car.
They have - they are used to put chains on,
Now they get good tires.
Why do they have to walk with difficulty? Snow for Donald Trump?
Yes you know, my whole concept
And my whole theme, Frankly, behind him
Does America make it great again?
Make America great again!
We will make America great again!
We will make America great again Build a wall
Build a wall
I am very focused on his idea
That this voter has really shifts their song
About what they are upset.
But you know, there are a lot of ins and outs
People like this the audience doesn't take,
And he's smart enough to know
That he can drive right away passes through many problems
And they don't go to be noticed by anyone
Thank you very much, everyone.
Wow, this is beautiful.
♪
We have fun.
We give very high that value
Even people who hate me give me good grades,
Isn't that amazing?
Over the next 20 minutes,
He is talking about how he will slap the rate
In each country import to the United States
And yes, how is he, You know, Ford will -
Want to move a factory and he--
He, Donald Trump, President,
Don't go to allow that
The idea of giving government
That much power - over company business
It looks like it doesn't bother the this audience at all,
What is odd when you think after that -
After all that propaganda year
For years and years and years,
What is the party line? we got that, you know,
Free treatment all.
The market is self-correcting.
We are the best in the world.
We have confidence we will do that
Well, that's not the problem he said again
People don't have confidence in that anymore
Now they need -
Now they need strong people to enter
And make sure that we are all paid.
I will return our work from China, from Mexico,
From Japan, from so many places
I will return our work and I will return our money.
Acerbic Matt Taibbi writes on Donald Trump
Really remind from I.F. Stone writing
In demagogues senator Joe McCarthy,
And presidents like ike Eisenhower, John f. Kennedy,
Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon
♪
Matt is a kind of cross between I.F. Batu
And hunter s. Thompson, original Gonzo journalist,
Who is very rude, viscerally,
In the early 70s.
And like Izzy is drowning
When the mainstream media gives Joe McCarthy the megaphone,
The independent voice of Taibbi can't really compete
When mainstream tv news, for months,
Provided enough uncritical platform
and large megaphone for trump
When do we defeat mexico on the border
They laugh at us on our stupidity
They carry drugs.
They bring evil.
They are rapists and some, I assume, are good people.
♪
We spend about a year doing this story,
And we found evidence body, human body,
Buried in, I will say, criminal way.
♪
If we have 200 of those bodies buried criminally
In the United States, if they are bored,
I think we will do it hear about it
Because they are Mexican,
Or because it is indeed from the south of the border,
Mostly,
There is no sort of uproar
National media does not pay attention to
We find mass graves in the United States.
We found people dumped into mass graves,
And indeed is not cataloged
They are not documented,
They are not treated properly.
Some individuals are buried in garbage bags
mainstream media,
If we talk about national media coverage
From migrant deaths in falfurrias, texas,
As far as I know is gone
Media executives, most of them,
People who make decisions about what is on television,
Are really some most people lack information
When it comes for the news itself
Options made
Is entertainment based.
Who is beautiful
Who can speak English?
This is that I was asked
When I'm throwing a story.
They won't do it watch a bunch of bodies
Digged from the graveyard
And see law enforcement Responsible.
It's not something it's tasty,
And I'm talking about all from mainstream media
On the main network.
Abc, nbc, cbs, pbs.
We are dumbed down, we are watered down,
We are misinformed, we are misled,
And we are told wrong information
♪
I remember throwing a story up to 60 minutes,
I did one for about one year before,
And it's about borders and it's about migrants.
A story that is rarely obtained to see the light of day,
And they told me,
"John, we've done it a border story for you."
It was a year ago, so there can only be one border story.
It's not what they the audience wants to see,
Even if it's newsworthy,
They will consider it first rank.
♪
Heat index, combination temperature and humidity,
Is the highest in the country.
Images cannot be captured,
And I can't just explain,
How hot and how feels moist
♪
It's like walking through soup
♪
Of course winter coats
Some young women,
May bring the best the best clothes and jewelry
♪
Only in Mexico, not Central America,
Who has crossed the border
That means 10,000 families
And never is heard again.
Where are they?
None their notes
They may be in some burial sites
My colleagues, we have an obligation to our citizens We have this obligation to the body
To see that our resolution is obeyed.
We wrote 1441
Give iraq last chance.
Iraq doesn't, so far,
Take it last chance.
We don't have to shrink from whatever is in front of us
And our responsibilities citizens
Thank you mr. President.
Does Colin Powell close Today's deal in your mind?
I think anyone analyzes the situation,
He has closed the deal.
This is undeniable, irrefutable, undeniable evidence today
Colin Powell brilliantly delivered
That smoking gun today.
That's very interesting,
I don't see how anyone at this time
Cannot support this effort
That's very devastating, I mean, and it's amazing.
Abundance abundant from evidence
♪
This is the main stream the darkest hour of the media
Going away!
Fight, fight!
They are more than cheerleaders,
They are involved.
He just floods terrain with - with data
Powell's speech has - has moved the ball
I think the case is closed.
You don't, under international law,
Wages of a destructive sociocide.
They basically blow separate countries
Because they want it to get the Saddam Hussein
Well, this is like one of the biggest international crimes
Since World War II.
This is the abc world news tonight
This is nbc night news
♪
This is night news cbs
And it's done with Complete involvement
From mainstream media which keeps critical sound,
Like ours, from the air
Oh, I think it's important to have experts explain the war
And to describe military hardware,
Explain the tactics.
Talk about the strategy behind the conflict
I went to the pentagon myself several times
Before the war starts
And meet important people there
And say, for example, in cnn,
"This is the general we are thinking of defending
Giving us the air and going about war,"
And we have big thumbs on them all.
That is important.
Journalists, too many of them,
And some are quite explicit,
Already said so they see the mission
Like helping war effort.
At msnbc, I am in the air every day
As a political and media analyst.
And if you define it your mission is like that,
You will end suppress news
Maybe so is important, accurate,
But it might not help for war effort
But I lost my time because they have to give a place
When we get close invasion of iraq
For this endless parade retired general,
Department, admiral, former head of cia,
And we know now those people don't have independence,
They are fed to talk points by the pentagon,
And most of what they say, like _ our country is driven to fight,
False
♪
Rich insurance.
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From pacifica, this is democracy now!
♪
Democracy now !, it's a little bigger, I think,
From space IF. Stone is operated from,
But there are so many models in this idea
From medium media a refuge for dissent
You know, the need is the mother of discovery.
We can't afford Satellite
The network has.
We work with the internet from the beginning
Out of interest.
Now, we are broadcasting on more than 1,300 radio
and television stations.
Access public tv, community radio,
Public radio, pbs, public television,
But we aren't there won the popularity contest
We are there to bring out people's voices
Worldwide.
♪
From pacifica radio, this is democracy now!
Pope John Paul II Senior The advisor has arrived in Baghdad
For meetings with senior Iraqi leaders
Last night, he led a mass
On st. Joseph Church in central Baghdad.
Democracy now! Correspondent jeremy scahill is there
Whatever of their faith,
Iraqis are praying for a miracle
Almost no one believes war can be avoided.
John Paul II has added the sound to the growing chorus
Fight against iraq,
But it's impossible that george w. Bush will listen.
The church's own method has come out
Against attacks on iraq,
And shrubs will not be even again meet with the leaders.
For democracy now !, this is jeremy scahill in Baghdad
♪
The problem is that most of the big media is business They respond to their investors,
Stock market and their advertisers,
And independent journalists Bring their conscience to work
And they call the situation because it's really factual,
So they are rare types.
They are not trained for commercial motivation.
Well, the problem is is the illusion of free press.
You know, we don't have countries media in the United States,
But if we have it, how can it be different?
It's easy criticizes foxes
This changes, that's cnn, This is when new york.
That's why we need independent journalism
You know, it's why do we need media
The challenge strength of the company
When we cover war, we can't be brought to you
With weapons manufacturers.
When we face climate change, we can't be brought to you
With oil, gas, coal, nuclear companies.
When we discuss health care, we can't be brought to you
With insurance and drug companies.
We must have media
That is a balance for those in power
That's the only equalizing strength
I think media is really nihilistic
This - it's about making money.
Avoiding difficult truths about our society.
You know, a story about what It's like being in welfare,
That's not a story, isn't it?
But you know, kim kardashian falls into a puddle
In central park, is a story
Well, Kim and Kanye, are also known as Kimye,
It is expected to get married here in florence this weekend
In a fort medici
That's worth $ 400,000 for rent
Erin Mclaughlin, cnn, florence, Italy.
♪
If you have to come up with the slogan
For what is new we media efforts are,
Which jeremy scahill and laura poitras and me -
Are the buildings below aegis the first display media,
You might be able to use it as a slogan,
"I.F spirit. Stone,
But funded with $ 250 million. "
Glenn Greenwald has done it a lightning for controversy
Since he got the secret the document from ed Snowden
and published a few of them in the guardian.
Now he is sliding a media company
Supported by the founder of Ebay Rich, Pierre Omidyar
The main thing you get is to summarize all of this
That way cannot be decrypted
And read when in transit across the network,
Or in both from the end point
Okay, I mean, if you know,
These documents basically all will be installed inside,
Like, 48 hours, 72 hours.
This is - this is only, you know,
You want to get in the process do this for everything
Because it feels difficult, But it's not difficult.
This is very easy.
Thank you very much to the academy
Disclosure Edward Snowden revealed
Don't just expose threats to our privacy,
But for our own democracy,
And I share this with glenn greenwald
And other journalists who exposes the truth
Thank you.
♪
Is it mr. Daoud was immediately killed
Or is he alive? A few moments after he was shot?
You see our troops take bullets out of the body?
♪
When Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill work together
Shared intercept,
It feels like--
Dream for hostile journalists
♪
And since 2014, they have already been able to, with their team,
To solve story after story political corruption,
Especially scoop after scoop
About national security supervisory state,
Which main journalist often tends to avoid
Failed to fail patriotism
Good journalism right now country in the crosshairs,
And you never want to punch down.
You always want to punch up.
That's what I think we are trying to do
On intercepting
And once at a time you have that file,
Just right-click the file in the search.
Are they - are they capable? to decrypt it at all?
I don't think so.
Well, you look behind me
And you see the newsroom is full of fantastic,
Independent journalists who come from all kinds of backgrounds,
But this is still very much a - a project in development
I will say our mission statement is -
Is to produce hostility, journalism is fearless
This central idea, I think, everyone shares
Is that more someone's strength wields,
More and more journalism accountability
And the supervision they need.
I mean, it's written explicitly there that they--
It supports buzz surveillance operations.
Most of the bandwidth is in galaxy 26,
And not nro secret site
That must be so satellite.
Yes, can support up to 40 uav sorties simultaneously
And this is a satellite indicating construction
From facilities in Germany
That is what we use as part of the drone program.
The German government is basically trying to argue That doesn't exist -
There is a role at all
At target kill program,
Because that's how it is illegal under German law
This is the story involving many countries
Engage with our drone program
And their government also doesn't realize it, or--
Or they lie,
And that's part of what we try to nail it down.
Part of my discussion was shown in citizenfour
With snow There are several references
For the use of ramstein
Part of a command chain
Where this unmanned aircraft execution is done
♪
Do you know that?
But the drone paper really strengthens this--
This role on one side is very important And that is created, Actually, some debates
And some scandals in Germany.
German population is almost not at all aware of its role
Ramstein is playing this program, and obviously,
Germany is very much _ opposed to the death penalty
And that's the reason that if they know about it,
They will never do it have allowed it
This is the most sophisticated
The so-called clean method bumps into people.
♪
I became kind of obsessed with with this assumption that a man
Who is the constitution lawyer with training,
Who wins the prize of noble peace, leads a--
Efforts to legitimize
And some will say, legalize murder
As the main component of our
policy I will make our government open and transparent,
So anyone can be sure
That's our business people's business
Just like brande louis ever said,
"sunlight is the biggest disinfectant."
Who would have thought that we would get a president
Who is charismatic, maybe--
Maybe one of the smartest presidents,
If it's not the smartest president in our history,
With a good background in social justice causes
Who will lead more whistle blower prosecution
Like spies from all previous administration combined,
Who will develop
drone program And try to legitimize murder program?
When Obama is selected,
He promised it his government
Will be the most transparent in history
There is no secrecy anymore.
That is commitment I made you as president.
There is no secrecy anymore.
You know, we will do it work with sources
Or with the document we have obtained,
And then you, you know, you try to hunt down
Available to the public record these things
And I mean, what is extraordinary number of items
A kind of hidden in front of your eyes
If you dig far enough.
That's all IF. Stone is doing it.
I think what is different whether it is, you know,
Part of what we do is try to grow the source
And talk to people who are directly knowledgeable
About various operations in the military
Or cia or nsa and then, you know,
Then you start going down the rabbit hole
I mean, I've often said that I think
That's I.F. Batu is the first blogger,
Even though he has before the blogger is there,
But in my opinion, he is completely encapsulated
What is the new media ethos ,
That's the idea of work as much as possible
Of all forces faction and center
Where do you report,
And what we build here, in our new media terms,
Very much, I think, based on on the ethos he initiated.
♪
Ooh, do you feel it? gentle breeze from the subway?
Isn't that delicious
♪
I have to meet I.F. Batu
In the mid 80s in washington, dc
I want to issue me weekly weekly weekly myself,
And I just want to go and talk to him about it.
It was just an amazing afternoon
That I got to have with him
For really, type, select his brain
And tell him, you know, what I want to do
And he gave me, You know, good advice.
The advice I already know, Because I read it, you know.
His - the motto of magnitude
From all governments run by liars
And nothing they say must be trusted,
And he said-- he told me,
But I will do it expand it now
To the government, company,
You know, it's not fair - government
This - that-- who is in charge
You have to start, as a journalist,
Assuming that they lie to you
Now, some of them might not lie,
But it's their job to prove to you,
Journalists, that they don't lie.
Through High School, I read I.F. Weekly Stone
One of the things I learn is that
Humor isn't just about telling jokes
Or just about funny ha-ha.
Humor can be the most piercing political weapon
I & apos; m - I was stunned more People actually don't use humor
Because it's so strong,
And one of the great things You learn about humor
And good ridicule when in the political world
Is that very difficult? to respond.
Faa has taking action
To close all airports in the United States.
Thousands of tourists stranded.
Among them, Ricky Martin,
Because it appeared on this night Latin Grammy award
Not even Ricky Martin can fly
But really, who wants to fly
There is no
Except bin ladens.
♪ we have to get out of this place ♪
♪ if that's the last thing the thing we've done ♪
The whole idea how do I find that thing
In fbi and bush administration
Allows bin ladens to fly out after 9/11,
That's direct from I.F. Stone.
He said to me, he said,
"When you take the paper, you go to page 17 first.
Don't read the front page.
Skip the front page, open page 17.
Because that's where the right is.
And it will happen be very small
Maybe a little two paragraph story,
Or it will be buried in paragraph 78,
But that's where they put it,
And they know what they do
So, you just go there
Yes.
What I see and learn
From reading IF. Weekly Stone
About an agenda
It's not specified
With conventional wisdom.
For me, it's real big enemy reporting
What is conventional wisdom.
-Nyonya. Hamblin? -Yes.
Hi, we are from washington post
I'm Carl Bernstein, this is Bob Woodward A committee friend said that we could contact you
I carry no ideological items
Whatever my background is to watergate,
I bring a feeling of report to it,
Partly because I think,
"how could the president? from united partners
Involved in this something stupid? "
Initially.
Conventional wisdom is good reporting enemy
And I think izzy understands that
I understand that from get-go
Can I help you in several ways?
Yes, I'm Bernstein, I've been waiting here
- Since nine o'clock in the morning -Will you wait outside?
I've been waiting for since this morning
Please finish your call
Wait outside, please, will you
No, no, no, no, no. I come here here and I'm here
OK, yes, I got the press here.
Watergate is an unusual thing For example, and I mean,
Initially people don't believe the story we write,
Including most of our colleagues in the press in washington
Watergate is an unusual example
Where rights things happen.
Bernstein succeeded other sources
Men in court confirmed
If there are doubts, we can run it tomorrow
You don't need to, the story is solid, we are sure of that.
I just got out of the phone With him, it's gold.
Okay, just come along.
♪
Usually, when I enter,
What is around this time, 1:00, 2:00, 2:30 p.M.,
I see what else morning producers,
because of the morning the leaves of the producer,
Like, in the afternoon around 3:00 a.m.,
But he usually, you know,
Check out some possible stories,
So it depends what he suggests
And he often comes in conversations with amy,
I immediately start reach people
Guess prospective guests.
Yes, I think must be fine
We just make sure start with other segments
Then, you can continue,
Like, 8:00 a.m., 8:30 a.m.
Amira hass here, and she goes Saturday,
So I think we should be clear Have him in the studio tomorrow.
Sharif is here
-And he has carried out this investigation. -in yemen, yes
And then, that other thing happens in the world today
Okay, now it will be pitch at the station
To make sure they are around
So that we can continue to be broadcast
Okay, very good, thank you.
So your child is on duty in Iraq?
Yes, he survived like three ambushes,
But he comes out messed up
He, you know, ptsd, you know
Here.
Alright, handsome man.
Yes.
How much life must be destroyed?
How many families
Stupid war, You know, it's like...
But you feel somewhat, You know, in danger.
Have you been threatened before?
There is a danger, yes, work there now
But the risk is we take
Much less than what Other people are doing,
So especially people who work in human rights.
They have a much greater risk and So, compared to them, you know,
You get courage when you-- when you see them working.
You know, they say, you know,
We are engaged war on terror,
And they use the same thing the language they use here,
"war on terror"
But the pattern alone The result is more terror,
So we have more terrorism now,
And war again.
I started working in journalism
Right around the beginning of from the Iraq war in 2003.
- Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you too.
That is very frustrating as a young person
Stay here new york, as arabic,
As someone who is just politicized
And watch this massive invasion being downed.
People feel like you have to scream and say, "This is wrong."
And there are these kinds of protests
And that's when I was first heard democracy now
And I first heard it Sound like this
I have never heard at all other airwaves.
Voice of dissent, opposition vote
Moderate people are not allowed in the air
I am very interested in this type of journalism.
My first day in democracy now!
Is the first day of iraq war, March 19, 2003.
Reporter Nicholas Kulish who solved this story
All that and more, will come.
Amy Goodman has been maintained by a number of journalists,
Includes sharif abdel kouddous
He is a correspondent, a senior producer,
He is sometimes a co-host,
And then 2011, rebellion starts in Egypt,
That country sharif was born in,
And he flew to Egypt
And the country is almost unrecognizable to him That fear is gone and the report is clear
Have millions of people follow the report.
Only at 10:00 a.M. On Tuesday morning.
Today marks one week of birth
From the popular uprising _ which began on January 25.
There are more people here than I've seen on tahrir,
But in this rebellion.
Today is the day they say
They go to come out
For more, we join by sharif abdel kouddous
Who is fair back from Yemen
He is democracy now! Correspondent,
Friends in national institutions,
And he just wrote a piece for a global post called
"with our help, Saudi Arabia is eliminating Yemen."
This is the first of two series parts in Yemen.
Sharif, start by just explaining
What you find on your blog a week-long trip there.
Well, I spend most of the time
In the controlled houthis area north yemen
And this is the area
It has been pounded without stopping
Over the past nine months with daily airstrikes.
You cannot visit the city or a city in Yemen
Without seeing destruction on the ground
Everyone has beaten from home
To school, restaurants, bridges, roads,
Many civilians infrastructure and -
And with that, of course, Come in a lot of suffering.
♪
Saudi bombing campaigns supported by the United States
With logistics and intelligence support,
And I think it's the fact that many Americans don't realize
That they are involved with their tax money
In this conflict who has civilians
At the center of the earthquake from his suffering.
Be careful back there
I will.
♪
These are mass graves they comb all day
Everyone is different.
Do you want yours Children are buried like that?
or your mother or you your sister or brother?
I mean, this is not what you want someone you love is buried
♪
Nice to meet you
You too, sorry, I stand at the door to keep it open
Ah, how are you doing?
I'm great, thank you
Good, well, we can do it lifts or stairs.
How many flights go up?
♪
Hey, audrey, do you remember john
Audrey, John, nice to meet you.
Thank you very much for doing work
♪
Okay, john, what is this? We end up with often.
So, you can see that this is really white Because it is indeed sun bleached
So, this person is out for a long period of time,
And they also survive enough little damage to carnivores,
But you can see it this is an individual
Who has 206 bones at minimum _ in their body,
And we have three.
And there's no way you can do it ever identify this person
Well, we have taking samples and
And this is actually analyzed
At the center laboratory identification
Through joints armed forces.
It could be if we can match Samples and this for families.
♪
I have no doubt that if 200 poodles are reviled,
Everyone will Be a weapon.
We might change sort of poodle law
To ensure that is buried properly
The fact that this is is 200 human migrants,
Most people are Latin Americans,
What is the reason? nothing has been done
That is the only reason that nothing has been done
These people don't count.
For the most part, they are considered criminals.
They are here to rob your work,
They here damage our economy
Donald Trump wants to build a wall to separate us from them.
They are marginalized and they are slandered,
So if they die and are thrown into a hole in the ground,
Good
Para ti.
¿Como te llamas?
-Carlos. -Carlos.
Reportero report
♪
My father strongly believes the importance of a free press.
He once told me, "if something wrong with the government,
Free press will the ferret,
And it will be fixed.
But if something happens wrong with the free press,
The country will go directly to hell. "
This is a typewriter where
My father typed with two fingers.
So how long does he use this typewriter?
Well, as long as I can remember, how come.
It's - it's amazing that he will type with two fingers.
So he never - he never learned how to type with...
He is not too mechanical.
Whereas, our car continues to strike
Because he never change oil
♪
IF. Both stones are an investigator and writer
With sarcasm and intelligence and humor in his work,
And today I.F. Batu,
Many of them don't come For the level of writing,
Unless you think from matt taibbi
The media has run out of decades playing news
To the consumer business
That basically cannot be distinguished
From selling cheese burgers or video games.
You want a bigger margin,
You just cram the product is full
More fat and sugar and hardness
And you wait for your obesity, consumers who are too stimulated
To come waddling so on.
♪
Breaking news now, just come to abc -
The death toll increased even higher today.
We start with celebrities behaving badly
Squealing, like, pandas lovers of this entire planet
Beaten like this mama bears give small children, and then -
People can vape without -
As a hover driver boards explode to -
Congressman, let me bother you for just a moment,
We have some news from Miami
Stand up, if you want.
At present, in Miami, Justin Bieber has been arrested
At a number of costs--
What we call right wing and liberal media in this country
Really only two different strategies
Of the same nihilistic type sensoryism of the lizard's brain.
There is nothing but murder, bomb, and panda birth
Delivering to thickening of couch potatoes
In a blast that is shorter than 40, 30, 20 seconds.
Most in the world tough investment banks
Are great vampire squid wrapped around human faces,
Nonstop making blood vessels to anything
It smells like money.
And the funny part Of course,
Vampire squid don't have water channels,
So we check the facts problems with that, and that--
But I think it's part of what makes it funny
What is that, you know, that's right picture that doesn't make sense, right
You know, you have this thing At the same time horrible, and silly
I think that concludes what is the bank all about
♪
In the news from Iraq, at least 16 people were killed Thursday
In clashes between our troops and shia militia in Baghdad.
Dead people include a photographer for Reuters news agency,
And the driver.
They apparently entered fire from our helicopter
♪
In December, democracy is now! Traveling
To the Calais refugee camp.
Biggest refugee camp in France,
About two hours north paris
Six to seven thousand people live there,
Camping in emergency tents
Sometimes people stop to talk,
But we have repeatedly warned
That person doesn't want their faces are shown
They are afraid.
They are afraid are targeted here And they are afraid their family
Will be targeted at home.
Are there drone attacks -
Yes there are drone attacks.
They always kill innocent people people in the village.
Civilians become very angry and They join the Taliban group.
So what do you think that we should do now
You know, we are fair increase the war
Actually we don't want to finish the war
This is their game.
This is a game...
George w. Bush, Obama.
They don't care about people who are dying there
President Obama said the war ended in Afghanistan
Do you see it end?
Until America left Afghanistan,
This will not end.
Never.
This camp map,
This is a map where refugees come from
Most of these countries have been bombed
By the United States.
Syria, Afghanistan,
Iraq, sudan
I don't think about it, but it's true
What is very is important to explain
And what is less systematic
In all accounts I've met
In the mainstream media,
Why did this happen?
Why are these people? Where are they?
Why do they suffer? the most inhuman condition,
The most despicable degradation,
And of course, this is very important to have empathy And solidarity for the suffering of these people,
But we can't think that suffering
Has fallen from the sky,
And they are only very unclear
Because that is indeed the subject , correct
There is an enacted policy.
There is a decision that has been made
There is a bomb that has been dropped.
As a consequence, millions of these people
Poor in their way ,
And we must allow them to tell the story Do you think Russian, Syrian, French,
British bombing Syria will save it?
No no no.
This is not the solution.
You can't protect someone by killing others
♪
In international waters, at tonkin bay,
Destroyer from United States Navy
Assigned routinely patrol from time to time
Sunday, August 2, 1964,
Destroyer, maddox, are on such patrols.
Shortly after noon, the calmness of the day was broken
As a public place is heard.
In intentional and unwarranted actions,
Three northern Vietnamese boats pt release torpedo attacks
Against maddox
Classic examples from IF. Stone Ability
Looking for something When no one else does it
Is the bay made from fairy fish? to go to Vietnam.
♪
Three weeks after we had what was called an attack
In the north of Vietnam, izzy reads all reports afterwards,
And he said, "where - where debris if we are affected?
Why is there no more? is being discussed?"
And he said there were all kinds of reasons
Why is this small, tiny the country will fight
The biggest fleet In the world,
Except for that fact might have been provoked
All media is fair the following goes directly to war,
Like congress, and I keep thinking
If the mainstream media has followed gray,
We may not have it 10 year disaster.
♪
We can't get it get it through our heads
That this is a political war
You have to do it ask yourself
Why is it here? are Vietnamese
On the one hand, on our part,
And this is the same as Vietnam on the other side.
And on the one hand, they have very few in the way of weapons.
They don't have an air force, no napalm, no big bang,
And they really fight majestically.
And on our part, you have five times more soldiers,
All the equipment, all that firearms, all the artillery,
And they are not worthy of bad luck.
Many people protest IF. The stone is on,
Because you can imagine He has courage
Say things that are against our war policy?
Alright brave at that time
When we are suffering with all kinds of things.
Murder, and Vietnam war,
A subject where stone is quite brilliant,
And how can we get into it
And how we might never get out of it
As we go and that--
Bring the courage to say it it.
extreme rights and author of hate letters
Always ready to go.
Ask again for solidarity from Vietnam, he will agree with me
I don't mean to say there are not brave people among them,
And some good troops, but overall,
People on one side are struggling
And people on the other hand don't care and leave.
Why is this?
Why, because men on the other side
Feel them fighting for freedom
They fight for freedom from--
From domination by the white men, and by westerners.
IF. Stone will debunking official fiction
As soon as the government spits them
I don't know that during the joe mccarthy era,
Or all lies about Vietnam
You can read izzy stones within a week,
And he is defying this fiction We need to know what the government is doing
We need to know what is real,
And we need to know what nonsense
And that the biggest problem,
And great izzy
By saying, "hey, I checked.
This is nonsense."
Just like Izzy and published I.F. Weekly Stone
Get out of his house with his wife,
Esther, manage account,
Tom engelt with it akumenang.com
Is another example about how a journalist
Work from a small office at home
Can reach a very broad audience
With independent reporting and analysis.
About how I start tomdispatch,
You have to go back to literally until 9/11,
And our news starts to narrow, you know,
In a way I've never seen at the height of the cold war,
As far as I know.
And I suddenly realized that out there,
There is more sort of news
I began to obsess over collect this item,
And then, and write small comments,
And my little comments become a kind of commentary
And this is what happens the wonders of the internet,
People start jumping.
People start writing me and "Can I be on your list?"
I don't even really know I have a list,
And suddenly, I have a list of 400 people Includes journalists and me That is, susan sontag wrote me,
I mean, suddenly.
I don't know susan sontag
I am now almost 71 years old.
I jump in, I'm from the beginning,
Falls into the world from many young people.
I don't know what I do,
But I've worked as a book editor
With great writers for years.
Chalmers johnson, all kinds of people.
And I started asking them Once this thing started,
I started asking them if they wanted, you know,
Write and like this type of communal activities,
And that turns away from that that it becomes like now,
Which is a little intro and then a piece.
I mean, that I can do or by one of -
I think beautiful hit the set of writers.
♪
Report maker, without a doubt,
Know many things I don't know,
But a lot of what they know is not true
He is fantastic journalist and -
As he showed himself,
The biggest contribution for his career
Is he excluded.
He doesn't have it, as he shows,
He doesn't have it to waste his time
Go to a press conference Because he was not invited,
So he doesn't need to hear it all lies and lies
So he doesn't need to do it waste his time repeating it.
He can just go directly to the document,
For historical records, see what happens,
And he did it brilliantly.
Go in white house and leave
And ask questions from the press secretary,
This is work that some people have to do it
It's not often that you develop new information from doing that,
And that just becomes spinning battle.
I remember very well
And ari Fleischer is the press secretary
And he just kept saying the same thing "No, it's true, that's right."
I go, "but this report is just coming out from anywhere
And that says it's actually That doesn't happen."
And he left, "No, but it did."
And I really feel like I'm talking to a man who says,
"Green sky."
And I will say, "no, no, no, Actually the sky is blue."
He goes, "no, no, Green sky."
And you can only do that a lot, and people, you know,
Who is on that side? will say, damn it!
We ask each country on the security council
To weigh the advantages that exist a decision about war and peace,
And if anyone thinks so there are countries, like Mexico,
Which voice can be bought based on a trade issue
Or something else like that, I think you gave -
Perform severe injustice for independence
And the judgment of the leaders of other countries.
Think about the implications What you say.
You say that leaders from other countries are buyable
And that's not a proposition that can be accepted
Thank you.
♪
Good afternoon everyone.
What concerns the president has
About the possibility Donald Trump can someday
Be our main commander?
The President has confidence
That's if mr. Trump is a candidate for republicans,
He will not win general elections.
This is kind of, you know, a little kabuki,
Theater production every day, and so he is here,
I don't know how to report a lot of reporters, 70--
70 or more journalists,
Who really wants to drive him out of the message,
So he has to get out and looks more or less
Answer questions without saying anything
That will make news.
Does the president hear from us allies
and those who participate in our military operations
Next to America?
I will not be able to share secret details
From that conversation The President already has
With other world leaders,
But there are global consequences _ for arguments
It was made by domestic politicians
But I think, you know,
White house should Recognize that media,
Which represents the public To a certain degree, you know,
Is it right to ask questions
And sometimes also they have to answer various things
That's not really, maybe,
What they are most interested in is in talking about that day
Hello?
Oh, I don't - I mean,
I think we already continue this,
But you will not be recognized as a source for anything.
Your name won't, you know, appear as, you know,
Connected to these documents
And of course there is no quote from whatever we are talking about
One of the main David maize spoons is 47% video
Where do you have a president prospective, mitt romney,
Do a $ 50,000 dinner per plate
Speaking of how 47% of our public is moochers.
When this is out, thanks to David Corn,
This changes the momentum of the 2012 race
Between Romney and Obama.
A united president declares to defeat the Romney Mitt
In this case - in this case current time,
We have made this projection .
So, the president wins this fight
♪
If the source is with 47% video
Do you want to bring the to the public,
He does not take it for NBC news or CBS news.
He brought it to Corn David on Mrs. Jones
Because he has seen investigation work
In the previous months corn had been done in Romney
♪
Okay, here it is list of people
Who testified in the trial,
So those who are we need to search.
Will do.
♪
There is something new intelligence today
Showing saddam Hussein has increased his efforts
To get nuclear weapons.
Last information, our word
That above passes 14 months,
They have seen Husdam Saddam trying to get weapons
To try and build an atomic bomb
That is basically a kind of from a feedback.
Administration is out there
Start beating drums for war on iraq
New times, worry to be in front of sir,
And to get the spoon actually
When they find it people with--
Administrative officials who are presenting evidence
It's not so strong,
But new york times go with the story
And then dick cheney quotes the story to say,
"see, new york times."
That has come out of administration
He is now trying,
Through the forbidden procurement network,
To get the equipment he needs
To be able to enrich uranium to make bombs.
Especially aluminum tubes.
There is a story at the New York Times this morning Leading up to war on iraq
This contains the story
Contrary to truth.
This contains the story that the source is
Has invested information
That should have been checked out and source -
Questioned start with
In their case own goals,
So it's time specific case
Especially big fail
There is nothing like experiencing
World best journalism
In its original form.
And I want time attribute,
I don't want to talk about, obviously,
Specific intelligence source,
But now it's common, it's actually,
He has tried getting the type of tube
It needs to build a centrifuge
♪
I remember, especially,
Watch cheney when meeting the press
And throw this item out,
And say my wife, say,
"this is nonsense
There is something missing here
There will always be into some uncertainty
About how fast he can get nuclear weapons,
But we don't want to smoke gun to cloud mushrooms.
Two days, I think that,
Before the war happened was launched in March 2003.
Washington Post has a good story
And the headline is something like,
"Some big bush war administration case
Not accurate or wrong, experts say. "
And on page a19, that, you know, inside,
And that question I've been since that time
It's under what news definition
Not so front page story
That said experts war administration cases
Wrong.
♪
Two beat
-Yeah, two blows. - And I added a line.
Yes, lisa, this is a command,
And what is circled and not circled.
I think in lloyd blankfein one,
I will end my tsunami analogy
"and this will happen accident on their head."
On their heads, huh.
Good.
IF. Stone is burning something very smart
With business subscription
What many people miss about the business model,
Which in general is a smart business model,
This puts your finances incentives in the right place
If your financial incentives are to please advertisers,
You will please advertisers, right
But in the long run, you want to incentivize yourself
Align with your audience
How you align with your audience
Is it if your audience pays you
So, if you enter misdirected,
They punish you by saying, "I go
And I don't pay you subscribe again."
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♪
Now, you can't be carried away with that,
Because sometimes you have to act out of principle,
Even if you lose you are a customer.
For example, after President Obama is elected,
I started criticizing it
For some things I realize, whoa,
Not that a progressive position,
And that's not a progressive position
And at the beginning we lost a lot of customers
Because people say, "Who, no, wait a minute now.
We work hard to get it obama's president is elected Well, that's how to stand on the principle of
And we endure that and then those people come back,
And even more so back when they realize,
"Oh, damn, you're right."
Clinton Hillary is tired
From the password that was written by the camp lies, he said.
Actually, here, Let me show you.
This is when he has run away
With Greenpeace activists.
Can we talk about climate change?
When people make claims like this,
Now I think has been denied,
Actually a washington post said three pinocchios.
New York times are also analyzed.
He says that, "oh no, it's debunked."
Okay, good, I will go to the source itself
The quote, without quotes, "debunked" the story.
Posting in Washington
So, it adds up to all donations to Clinton Hillary,
Up to more than $ 4.5 million,
So they admit it.
They admit it, there right?
But still only two percent
Of the total contributions accepted by Clinton
And outside groups support it
Now that's right, but think about it for a while.
Their reason for is, "yes, I know,
He takes four and a half million money from oil people,
But he takes so much more than others.
Bribery and the gas company gives it
Small compared to what the bank gives to it. "
Look, innocent.
Sanders Bernie is a liar
So, Elizabeth Warren, is interview -
I don't think there Even the video.
I think it's ib times.
But we have a panel at morning joe and hannity
And also Geraldo?
After the meeting, we have some videos that we do
And to basically get good Throughout the story.
Three years later, several senators said, "I never said it."
Even if you can't find the somewhere online,
I still have it.
So, I don't understand get rid of anything
So, we have tons of and many things
That's what I just saved what everyone has said
That's what we've done.
There are many, yes.
I don't envy the man who should cut it all
I can throw you some raw videos
You can cut it.
Yes, in my opinion, You mean arthur, right?
Good luck with that.
-Okay thank you. - All right, man.
I am amused by people who claim that the government does not lie.
Really, do you know humans who never lie?
Moreover, humans who needs to cover their butt
And protect their work?
Especially those who need to do all that in public?
Of course, they lie!
Of course they do it.
When was the last time you heard the word cnn
The Pentagon is lying?
Isn't it amazing that in this case decades of existence cnn,
They never say the sentence
So the pentagon never lies, according to CNN.
♪
Congressman, but overall, I am also a defender eagle.
I don't want to exit from control expenses,
So, I assume as a deficit eagle,
You also want to cut defense defense
And you want to increase tax on rich people, right?
Well, I think the first The purpose of this government
Is it to defend the nation,
And if we cut the defense to a certain extent
That we are no longer safe,
Let me suggest to you, Nothing will happen
More negative impacts on our economy.
Nineteen percent of deficit
Is defense shopping,
And we have spent more on defense
From the rest of the world combination,
But you still think we can't cut nickel from there
We need every nuke, every sub, every carrier,
Otherwise, we won't do it can exit-nuke iran,
Is that logic?
When I used to be working at msnbc,
I just guessed he was in cloud nine,
Because he really wants it and then there is one this week
Where they fly me to new york
And I help them produce television shows
Right then, I know it's not right for us,
But I don't say anything.
I just like it, Sit back and wait to see
If I will do anything I think he will do it.
Phil Griffin, who heads msnbc, pulls me to his office.
He sat me and he said,
"cenk, I'm right in washington,
And they're not happy with your tone."
And I sit back in my chair, like, "God, that happened."
Right, this is like a movie!
They - they give me this speech
You know, some people I say you're stupid.
I think you're smart
Actually, I think so is smart enough to understand
The current situation has explained to you
And he said, "Look, I want to explain to you about this,
So be calm.
Bring it down a little."
Now, if I feel the you have
Prosperity the state at heart,
Like I have, I will say it You are a man to watch.
"We need you to act like senators."
And I think, "why?
Why on a good god? green earth
Do you want to act like a senator?"
What does that mean I have to lie again?
I have to be more fake
People don't like senators.
Congress, at that time, was at the approval level Floating between 7 and 11 percent.
They hate the senators!
♪
They don't have to tell an anchor
Come to mainstream media,
"hey, be pro-government."
Despite being with me, I am indeed thick they must.
Right.
They don't hire that person,
And if they make mistakes employ him,
They lower him or they fire him,
And then the message is clear in the building.
"shh, we do not criticize existing forces
We do not criticize companies.
We are giants companies.
We do not take formation,
We are formation."
And people who play balls get promoted
And everyone in the building saw them get a promotion
That's an evolutionary process
With which mainstream media get the product they want.
I think what happened to cenk uygur at msnbc
Highlight the process
Leading for what call chomsky noam,
"manufacturing agreement".
Company news outlets often end
Being more propagandist than journalistic
Production approval ensures that stupid people
And a mixed majority avoid things
So, if they want--
For decades they want national health care,
But they don't understand, so keep them away from it.
Then you know, put them on the side.
They oppose war,
That's because they don't understand how important
For us to bomb libya and whatever it is.
First time That you can use Strength to do this,
But at the beginning of the 20th century,
Countries like England and the United States,
A more free society,
It is recognized that the power is no longer enough,
So you have to play controls attitude and opinion.
This is quite conscious coincidence.
I think the production agreement
Basically rosetta stone
This is the case of if you go
For most media figures
And / or for media companies and tell them that they are really -
Control everything they can and cannot say,
And not only will they deny it,
But they are essentially being honest in their denial,
Because they don't have someone standing on their shoulders
Removes the words that they write
Or force them to say something they don't want to say,
But the whole system of gives birth to a certain orthodox
And if you deviate too far from them, it will reject you
So, yes, you are really free
After you receive -
You are internally accept the principle
And you feel under there is no pressure in censorship.
You could say whatever you want
As long as you accept the concept of objectivity.
Let's just say they do it work and they are unconscious
That which they created is rather endless,
You know, minefield ignorance
That is impossible for us for all violations
When is the time coming, you know
Those journalists who are are more concerned about the truth
And who can read strength,
In essence, functions as a palace,
Know how to Play the game.
Veneer from objectivity, neutrality,
Assiduously serving,
The point is, strength,
And that is why if you Look at top management
They can do it right what they want,
He's a great reporter, maybe one of the best,
But he did not accept the rules, So he left the system.
Same as innumerable.
Jeremy scahill, glenn greenwald, amy goodman, even matt taibbi
♪
From my report, this is all
Autopsy ordered
Is this scientific autopsy report from--
You laugh
This doesn't look like the report that my students will do.
The report isn't looks like--
That is yours too students will do it, okay
You know, I kind of got,
Being or not there is a kind of fraud
With autopsy.
All of these reports are lost.
Oh, that is that is missing, oh, okay.
So, more than 30% of autopsy orders
You don't even have it a laboratory report for.
We don't even know they have ever done
They are billed.
I have a check that is canceled.
Oh
I don't have it autopsy _ done,
What they found
You are appointed to the board of directors of one of these commissions,
The bottom line is in Texas, by being a big campaign contributor
These are all exposures from this mass grave.
Make these people have this nonsense
For themselves,
Because that's how already exists in this state
And those people in the capital,
But it's also fair people go about their daily lives
And let that happen.
♪
He has to answer questions for weeks about this
He was also pulled in by some high rank
Local officials in the state and ask very similar questions,
So he has time for preparation.
Basically, what happens is nueces county
Are giving autopsies services for brooks,
And they are overwhelmed by with nueces county only
Of course I don't have time all this is being done,
You know, we chose After that, you know.
Some of them are finished
During the period your term here too Some of them after 2007
Oh yes, yes.
So, I just want to know
What is the morgue who is the body?
Actually, well, we have--
In other words, who is a mortuary monitor?
They are independent contractor,
So in other words,
You contract someone to do it,
You pay them 750 dollars and they go do the job.
What we know is we will pay
For four-- $ 500, $ 500, $ 500--
And that will say,
"one is eddie canalis, he is identified
These gentlemen are john doe
The other one is john doe. "
In cases where I feel uncomfortable
With the cause of death, and and--
That is the criterion where you see something suspicious.
What if you find only bones or skull or something?
This - it's difficult. You can't do that
It will be waste of time.
You won't order an autopsy
If so skull or bone
So the sun, 108, 107 degrees--
So, sun-exposed skulls or something, no?
No, no, they don't want to.
You don't have a problem
I ask directly about it
And he lies through his teeth
Through every one of them
So, the way his body was buried, mortar,
Contract, all, he just--
Only my nonsense along the way
♪
In my investigation before talking to him,
I found nothing but mismatches in the document
And documents in the way the record is stored,
And basically, without knowing he did it,
Recognizing everything for me,
And I'm actually just shaking a little of that
♪
The only way I can do investigation work
Before we bring it to the broadcast outlet,
Before we bring it to mainstream media,
Is it because of me actually? paid every month
By national institutions.
I have a monthly salary,
Investigation salary that allows me
To put all of this pieces together
And I can spend months on a story
I can spend one year in a story
Even before I took it to the broadcast outlet
Or forensic people in brooks county examine bones,
He assigns one fixed fee, $ 1500,
And there are many bones examined They might also be great eight years who wrote it.
"I see a man lying on the ground,
His bones are scattered.
They look fine to me," is basically a report
Fifteen hundred dollars.
He assessed eight people years from 2007 to 2014.
That's when all the bodies are buried
We - we know that county brooks lack resources
So let's take it at the nominal value for now.
I don't think So much of that.
I think there is something happening here
Obviously.
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I think about I.F. Stones are many and I think of the expression,
"all governments lie."
And I also think about facts That most of his property reporting has been done
Putting his face in a stack of documents
That's not flashy.
He found facts that the government lied
Basically with what the government does
They are bad cover their lies.
I can bring you to where I work
And I can show it to you stack after stack
After stacking documents
And I found, in our own place government documents,
There is nothing but lies
None, but wrong.
None, but covers the truth
And the government often lies,
And this is my job find out when they lie
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If you don't back out and see a bigger picture,
Basically, the empire does not fear anyone It runs for the office.
Whether it's a democrat or a republic that wins,
The core institution needs
The brutal military power upper back type, you know,
Hand layered velvet from free market
Is given to everyone who walks for the office
Or you can get a nomination from that party
So, you know, even if you have someone who,
In general elections, is considered,
You know, crazy
Once they start get the briefing
From the permanent power structure,
Intelligence community,
They all enter the path.
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Good, in journalistic school,
You are taught to be objective,
and objective means
Accurately report what occurs in the beltway
So, in the power system
If you report it Accurately, you are objective.
If you go outside that, you are biased.
Good, lots of from things outside
That this is narrow concentrated power system.
One of my favorite lines from any movie
What is the film from? "ordinary suspect."
You know, Kevin is negligent, It's amazing like Kaiser Soze,
But at the end the film, he said,
"The biggest trick Devil has ever been interesting..."
The biggest trick Devil has ever attracted
Does it convince the world? he doesn't exist
"... convincing the world does not exist."
You know, you have crazy people think
That is the department internal security
Will enter them in a fema camp somewhere
You have something else people think
Obama will come and take their weapons.
That's all a spectacle.
That's all a total spectacle.
The coup has happened
And the brightest part is about it
None of these people seem to realize it.
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I can draw a line from I.F. Batu
Jump to what I do now
That makes me sad thinks that actually,
He is not with us and that makes me really hope that -
That's I.F. next. Stone or two or three or four
Or 400 is out there now,
Who might see this? now, and think,
"You know, I can do this."
Because you can do it.
You know, you can do it.
Especially if you - again, do the job
Do hard work, but realize it is sometimes the best thing It's there in front of your nose,
And you don't even know it.
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Nice to meet you.
Funding is the key to being great investigative reporting
That's not true has a time frame
It may take months to get documents
That can take you to many people different directions and so on,
For me, the time is - equal with the amount of funds,
And funds equal with the amount of time
I can use on something
I'm working on a project now
That I've worked last year
And I might do it need another year
Before that was really broadcast.
If I work for corporate media,
This story will never air.
It's just that - I never have that luxury
Can develop a story for that period.
As an independent journalist, I want to know,
What do you think The implication is
From our news media minus
For 140 characters sound bites
Twitter can play extraordinary roles if used correctly
By journalist in debunking myths
or misinformation.
The other side is also true,
That can spread the wrong information
Very, very fast.
I - I think that the future is taking so much
From what is amazing about creativity
And innovation young people
Who dips their toe into journalistic water
And the ideas they have, and lack of cynicism,
And we try to link it with that old school muckraking technique
And slow down mature journalism.
Anyone who knows how is really two things
Will it create something very Especially in media landscape.
Almost all my life as a journalist
Has been spent in poverty media
You know, media who don't have money,
And we professional beggars,
And begging can sometimes come in
Requesting funds from - from a foundation
Or it could also come in the form of writing letters
For your family and friends, say,
"I really want to go for iraq to be a reporter.
Can you kick 25 or 50 dollars?" And that's actually how I finance
First time I've been to iraq,
Are begging me extended family to enter
$ 25 and $ 50.
He comes a long way
Because he is quite a lot genuine volunteers
On democracy now!
Jeremy Scahill.
The fact that I - now I have accepts this designation
It is an extraordinary honor,
And I want to promise to use this opportunity
To educate a new generation young journalists
About the extraordinary important work from I.F. Batu
And inheritance He has left us all
And the challenge is that he has left us all
In a very dark moment to just be a journalist
This is not a career, this is not a profession Journalism is a way of life.
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My hope is that we somehow magically produce
One generation young I.F. Batu
We must stop keeping with kardashians
And start back and chase me. Stone.
Thank you very much.
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I think he's really an inspiration in his role
The media can play In the world.
I think the media can be the greatest power
For peace on earth.
Instead, it is held by as a war weapon,
And that already challenged.
IF. Stone teaches us the government is lying,
All governments lie, especially in wartime.
When the media acts as a conveyor belt for lies,
Why is that important because lies take lives
And we see very big destruction
It comes from it
That we still live with today
A few years later.
It comes from the media does not challenge lies.
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Just because you're a journalist
Doesn't mean you check your humanity at the door
This - you don't can somehow pass
To not care about others.
Sometimes there are only One way to see a story,
And sometimes the truth is true ♪
There are only two types of reporters
Someone cares,
And those who don't.
Most of them don't care, But if you care,
If you are like me in el salvador,
or gaza or sarajevo,
Then you are immediately labeled as political,
Because if you care,
You can't lie cover the suppression,
Cruelty, genocide.
And if. Stone cares.
Vietnam's war has been into a terrible defeat
For all brands names we trust
For general electricity and general motorbikes and at & t.
For all the big ones company,
All major industries do the push button,
And when they - when they turn to war,
They know how to kill people en masse
And here, down in the forest,
The path below strange creatures
That we cannot destroy.
This strange animal we can't kill
It's time to look closely At that time and see, for the sake of God,
This is human, and not so beautiful
That humans can refuse
All of these killers our technology?
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Very short and not small measure to remind ourselves,
An observation with stones
And what he thinks journalism is all about.
In his words, to write the truth,
To defend the weak against the strong,
To fight for justice, to bring a healing perspective
Responding to terrible things hating and fearing humanity
With hope someday bring a world
Where humans will enjoy differences in human parks
Instead of killing _ each other above them.
If you see you will find more.
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